Joe Hendron

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Dr Joe Hendron (born 12 November 1932) is a Northern Ireland politician, a member of the Irish nationalist Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP).

Hendron was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Belfast West between April 1992 and May 1997. He had taken the seat from Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams, with a majority of 1%, gaining unprecedented support from both Catholics and Protestants in the Belfast West constituency. Adams regained the seat at the next election in May 1997.

Hendron, also a local GP physician for 40 years, was originally elected as a political representative of Belfast West in 1975 to the Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention, and in 1981 as an SDLP member of Belfast City Council for the area and in 1982 to the Northern Ireland Assembly.

In 1996 Hendron was elected to the Northern Ireland Forum for Political Dialogue and in 1998 to the newly reconvened Northern Ireland Assembly. However he lost his seat in the 2003 Northern Ireland Assembly election to a member of Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionist Party.

He is a recently appointed Parades Commissioner.

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Gerry Adams	Member of Parliament for Belfast West 1992–1997	Succeeded by Gerry Adams